SF News Hilariously Depressing New Board Game Asks You To Resolve Bay Area Housing Crisis After a long day struggling to make rent at a (less than fulfilling) job, there's nothing quite like a little R&R to help overworked Bay Area denizens relax. While some may
SF News New Report Shows Which SF Neighborhoods Have The Most Debt As is the norm around this great country of ours, the residents of San Francisco are in debt. Like, a lot of debt. A new report not only shows that the debt burden
SF News Supervisor Wiener Goes After Serial Code Violators Like (Ahem) Academy of Art Supervisor Scott Wiener yesterday announced his intention to propose new legislation making it easier for the city to go after "serial code violators," specifically mentioning The Academy of Art University as a potential
SF News Craigslist Guy Wants to Pay You To Respond To Apartment Ads For Him Finding an apartment on Craigslist is hard work, all the harder in a tight market. The endless emails that never seem to get returned, the weird phone calls, the showing up to a
SF News Menlo Park House Rental So Expensive Even Facebook Employees Say It's Rent Gouging It reads like the setup to a bad joke: When is a Menlo Park house so expensive that even Facebook employees can't afford it? Well, one would-be landlord found out the answer a
SF News [Update] Anti-Eviction Protesters Claim De Young Curator Is Evicting Longtime Artist Tenant It's one of those stories that makes you do a double take: art museum curator and newly minted landlord evicts a 34-year tenant, who just so happens to be an artist and woodworker
SF News The Mission Moratorium (Sort Of) Explained At Yesterday's City Hall Press Conference Yesterday was a big day for advocates of Proposition I, otherwise known as the Mission Moratorium, as proponents of the controversial measure took to the steps of City Hall to make their case
SF News New SoMa High-Rise SRO To Require Residents To Be 'Students Or Interns' Rising at 1321 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets is what might be thought of as an SRO Hotel for 2015. It's the Panoramic, and it offers us a view of housing
SF News This Storage Facility Seeking To Add 'Penthouse' Apartments Is Actually Not Depressing San Francisco, the "City by the Bay," the "Cool, Gray City of Love" where you can soon live in a storage facility. Actually, the news isn't that dour — you'd really be living above
SF News Out In The Avenues: Forget That Million Dollar Shack, Here's A Million Dollar Dirt Lot Many of us marveled when a dilapidated shack along Great Highway sold for $1.2 million in March, but most agreed that the value wasn't in the four-bedroom dump in the listing — as
SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
SF News 'Hacker Palace' Provides Free Food And Housing To People Who Need It Least If you're one of the 6,000 plus homeless San Franciscans who desperately needs food and shelter, this solution is not for you. Neither is it for the artist being priced out of
SF News Report: Which Neighborhood Home Values Appreciated The Most? A suspicion-confirming report from Paragon Real Estate Group points to three neighborhoods that have seen the greatest bump in home values since the financial crisis: Bayview, the Inner Mission, and Bernal Heights (in
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
SF News If SF Becomes A City For The Rich, Where Will Their Employees Live? A part of a program on America's increasing urbanization, Huffington Post Live spoke with Gen Fujioka, the public policy manager at the Chinatown Community Development Center, on how " increasing urbanization in cities like
SF News Big House, Small House: What $5.5M Gets You In Russian Hill Vs. What $2,900/Month Gets You In The Castro A couple of notable price-checks today to make you more depressed about the real estate market: A spacious Russian Hill condo has come back on the market with a small price cut, down
SF News Protestors Launch Sticker Campaign To Tag Apartments Illegally Flipped Into Airbnb Rentals Today at noon, the San Francisco Tenants Union (SFTU) will protest what they claim is “thousands of rent controlled apartments” that have been illegally converted to short-term rentals on sites like Airbnb. Starting
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November ballot, Mayor Ed
SF News Authorities Rule Mission Bay Fire Accidental The five-alarm fire that tore through a Mission Bay 172-unit residential building at Fourth Street and China Basin last month has been ruled accidental. According to fire officials, a "hot or smoldering object"
Arts & Entertainment Shake Your Fist At This 2BR Rental On Valencia Going For $10,500 [Updated] UPDATE: As some commenters have pointed out, this ad could be a hoax. How very political theater! Alas, no, via Uptown Almanac, it's not. Allow the exceptional TK of 40 Going On 20
SF News Market Street Cinema To Become Yet Another Condo Building Historic, seedy and possibly haunted Market Street Cinema at 1077 Market Street has joined the march to oblivion, as its owners have agreed to sell to a developer who will raze the 101-year-old
SF News Just Who Is 'Middle Class' In S.F.? New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows just how much San Francisco's middle class has faded amidst a growing population of high-income earners. As reported by the SF Examiner, the middle
SF News S.F. Rents Are Up 10% From Last Year San Francisco residents have long bemoaned the rising cost of rentals, and now there's word that the increase may be worse than you thought: in the past year alone, rents have risen a
SF News Jane Kim Steps In To Help Mid-Market Tenants Facing Eviction Following on yesterday's breaking news about the 100+ people getting evicted from two buildings on Market between 6th and 7th, Supervisor Jane Kim is hoping to get the word out to tenants that
